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Cathiemay

Posted - 16 March 2010 : 20:55:39 Hi, I wonder if anyone has photo's or any information of Pleasants farm house near Jedburgh. & Dalcove Mains farm house Mertoun. My grt.grt. grandfather Thomas Storry farmed and was a blacksmith at both these places in the 1800's . Catherine

Catherine Buss

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Cathiemay

Posted - 26 May 2016 : 22:11:48 Hi Stephen, Good to hear from you. In 1881 census Agnes & Isabella are living at Penninghame Wigtownshire, (not sure how its spelt) Son John Bell is married to Eliza Cowper & is a grocer at Wigtown. He seems to have moved to that area first as in 1871 he is at Creebridge Minnigaff Kirkcudbrightshire, Agnes is at Dalcove Mains Mertoun & I think Isabella is visiting a cousin Thomas Boyd at Newington Edinburgh. His mother Margaret Deans (Mrs Boyd)is there too. I thought Margaret Deans was a sister of Isabella Deans as she seems to have the same father as Isabella Deans, ( Alexander Deans ). but her mother isn't Agnes Waddel as Isabella Deans mother is. but a Isabella Wilson. Another mystery. In 1841 census Margaret Boyd has an Agnes Deans staying with her. I found an Alexander Deans in' Maxwells Ancestry' living at Blainslie nr Melrose & dying 1835 buried at Lauder Roxburghshire. Can't find any more about Alexander Deans or Agnes Waddel. As for Thomas Storry his father was another Thomas Storry born abt.1750 died at Lanton Jedburgh 1823 was a blacksmith married to Margaret Brunton . Thomas's father was maybe Robert Storry but I have no proof of that. I did find a Robert who died at Ancrum Roxburghshire 1772, he was married to Isabel Frater.I don't know if I can put my e/mail address in this site so as you could send me copies of what you scan. Its craigarol@btinternet.com I should like whatever you send, I am very interested in any of the family. regards Catherine

Catherine Buss

Baills

Posted - 25 May 2016 : 12:58:16 I have been tracking through to try and follow Agnes. Isabel married Robert in 1881 and then appears in the 1891 census for Dunoon. Agnes is living with them along with my grandfather John Bell Baillie and his siblings. Robert by this time is listed as a grocer where before he had been commercial traveller Handwritten note I found from my father indicates they had a grocer shop in Argyle St, Dunoon and another in Glasgow. William his father is in Glasgow as a grocer and is listed in the telephone directories running Donald & Baillie wholesale grocers and tea merchants from around 1871. Later he had Baillie,Milne & Co.Have you been able to go back from Thomas and Isabella at all?Is there any way I can scan and send the grannies stories and other farmer photos to you? Could also scan the death cards if you were interested.

Cathiemay

Posted - 07 May 2016 : 19:50:27 Hi Stephen, I just happened to go onto the borders website & much to my surprise there you were. Yes I am still hunting for any information I can get on the Stories etc., I haven't found very much lately. A few years ago there was a woman contacted me to say she was a descendant of Agnes Storie & she mentioned an uncle George that had been in Canada (Agnes's brother). I wrote back to her a few times but heard no more. I wondered if she had died, as I think she would be quite old. I am sure she could have told me lots of things that I didn't know. Thank you for keeping in touch.

regards Catherine

Catherine Buss

Baills

Posted - 26 April 2016 : 12:03:44 Hello CatherineBeen distracted by a number of things over the past few years and am only getting back to looking at the family history now. Wondered if you were still researching?Stephen

Cathiemay

Posted - 05 November 2013 : 21:14:07 Hi Stephen, It was good to hear from you and thanks for info., about Isabella etc., Agnes & Isabella had moved to Penninghame Wigtownshire (near Wigtown) in the 1881 census. Son John was a merchant clerk at Creebridge Minnigaff Kirkcudbrightshire in 1871 and by 1881 he was married to Eliza Cowper and was a grocer in North High St Wigtown. Their daughter Susan Agnes (called after her 2 grannies).was born 1880. He had moved to Morecombe by 1901 . I suppose Robert Baillie met Isabella at Wigtown, as I am sure it said on one census he was a grocers traveller at that time. In 1871 I found Isabella Bell (after a lot of searching) visiting her grt aunt Margaret Boyd (a sister of Isabella Deans) at Newington Edinburgh. Susan Agnes Bell emigrated to Canada 1915 to marry Henry Millar who had emigrated a few years prev.,They had a daughter Elizabeth. In 1920 Susan & Elizabeth came home on a visit to England. Eventually they must all have come back to Kidderminster England. Susan marries Edward Benbow 1940 & they had 2 girls & 1 boy. What happened to all the other Baillies ? was any of them grocers?. That's really interesting that you have a photo of Isabella Deans, what does she look like?. Maybe some of the other photo's of farm workers are Stories or Bells. (if only people had thought to put names on photo's.) I had changed my e/mail address , that's why your e/mail returned. I have changed it now on this site.Hope to hear from you sometime in the future. (I won't hold my breath) Catherine

Catherine Buss

Baills

Posted - 03 November 2013 : 14:10:47

quote:Originally posted by Cathiemay

Hi Stephen, I did reply to your last message by e/mail through this site, and wondered if you ever received it . I would very much like to know about Isabella Bell & her family, as I don't know anything after the 1901 census. Thanks to you I now know when Agnes Storie died. regards Cathiemay

Catherine Buss

Catherine

by now you will have guessed I am hit and miss in my responses, tend to pick up the famiy history from time to time and have been concentrating on my mothers side. I did email you but see it has bounced back.

In you email you mention Agnes being at Dalcove Mains in the census and the memorials to John (husband) and Thomas (son) I have the black border death cards for both of them- John on 13th May 864 following a "long and severe illness". The card for Thomas gives his date as April 30 1862 aged 8 years and 6 months at Newton- the card has a very touching poem. I havent yet found a death certificate for him.Agnes lived in Langlands Road in Govan, Glasgow- dont know when she moved- will have a look at the census returns- till she died of "senile decay" aged 94 on 14th Jan 1915. Her son, John, from Morecambe signed the death certificate. I didnt know anything alse about that side of the family.John and Agnes daughter Isabel Deans Bell married Robert Baillie in Wigtown (did Agnes live there?) in 1881 and they lived in Glasgow where both Robert and his father William were grocers. They eventually moved to Helensbugh and Isabel died in 1924. My grandfather lived there till 1939. Their son John Bell Baillie married my grandmother Winifred Marshall. They lived in Glasgow- John was an engineer in the merchant navy and my father followed him into the navy.I do have a number of Baillie family photos in an album but as usual none of them are named, they do include some that are farmworkers. Hoever there is one that has written under it "Grannie Storie" and I take it this would be Isabella Deans. Stephen

Cathiemay

Posted - 04 October 2013 : 20:41:58 Hi Stephen, I did reply to your last message by e/mail through this site, and wondered if you ever received it . I would very much like to know about Isabella Bell & her family, as I don't know anything after the 1901 census. Thanks to you I now know when Agnes Storie died. regards Cathiemay

Catherine Buss

Baills

Posted - 07 September 2013 : 16:26:37 apologies for delay on responding, on holiday. While away we visited Jedburgh and went to the Pleasants- recently developed with housing where i suspect the original farm buildings were. Very little of the original farm remains. The school is still there, directly across the road, now residential. Also went to Oxnam to the church Agnes married in. Finally searching for graves in Jedburgh churchyard,limited success- couldnt find Thomas although I believe he is there. Records not good but i believe they are being redone just now. I don't have much info on other members of the family as i only recently started to look into this side of the family. Who are you related to?

Cathiemay

Posted - 19 August 2013 : 23:04:47 Hi Stephen, Sorry I only noticed now that you say you are descended from Isabella. regards Cathiemay

Catherine Buss

Cathiemay

Posted - 19 August 2013 : 22:36:53 Hi. That's wonderful to find someone who is researching the same Stories as I am. I didn't know when Agnes had died, I had traced her through the census to Glasgow. Have you any idea what happened to her brother Adam born 1838. He disappears after 1872. I have managed to trace rest of family except for him and a sister Margaret born 1827, (I think she must have died young, but haven't found her death yet). I found an Adam Storie sailing from Liverpool to New York 1873 , he was from Scotland and a farmer. Theres no trace of him in USA or Canada. Perhaps he died on the voyage. Are you descended from Agnes daughter Isabella or son John ?. I would love to hear any information you have on any of the family. regards Cathiemay

Catherine Buss

Baills

Posted - 17 August 2013 : 13:05:13 Catherineit would appear we are researching the same family. My GG grandmother was Agnus, daughter of Thomas and Isabel. Born 1820 she married John Bell at Oxnam in 1847 and died in Glasgow in 1915- he died 1864 at Dalcove Mains. Their daughter Isabella was my G grandmother.

Stephen

MaryS

Posted - 02 October 2011 : 18:40:01 John Mather was a weaver and lived at Pleasants with his daughter Elizabeth and brother-in-law James Sanderson in the 1841 census. His other children moved to Galashiels to work in the woolen industry. The family emigrated to Canada starting in 1847 and some as late as 1855.

Interested in Mather, Nicol, Binnie, Lauder

Cathiemay

Posted - 01 August 2011 : 21:33:06 Hi Mary, I think the Pleasants must have been a small collection of houses. My ancestors the Stories were also there in the 1841/1851/1861 census. There was also a school, closed in the early 1900's. When I googled the Pleasants there was an advert for new houses for sale called the' Pleasants Steading. I wondered if they have demolished the old buildings. When did your ancestors emigrate from Scotland?. Regards Catherine

Catherine Buss

MaryS

Posted - 11 July 2011 : 20:32:27 the 1841 census shows my Mather's relatives living at "Pleasants" near Jedburgh. Could this be the same farm?